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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,741 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 461,984 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,844 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,479 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 125,224 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,187 ratings
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
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3.99 avg rating — 6,746 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 73,337 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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3.83 avg rating — 12,933 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,405 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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4.01 avg rating — 15,518 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.87 avg rating — 7,784 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 122,329 ratings
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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3.73 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Red Azalea: A Memoir
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3.85 avg rating — 10,798 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.26 avg rating — 55,029 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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4.09 avg rating — 14,429 ratings
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Stanwyck
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3.62 avg rating — 203 ratings
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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
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4.40 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Truman
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4.17 avg rating — 91,910 ratings
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Texas Connection: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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3.70 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
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4.24 avg rating — 2,172 ratings
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December 6th: From the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Basque History of the World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,687 ratings
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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3.62 avg rating — 573 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,210 ratings
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South Carolina: A History
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4.35 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
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3.88 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
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4.14 avg rating — 25,459 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,440 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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4.31 avg rating — 69,454 ratings
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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
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4.35 avg rating — 1,930 ratings
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Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
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4.23 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Bitter Waters: Life And Work In Stalin's Russia
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3.92 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943
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4.33 avg rating — 41,900 ratings
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Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present
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3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800
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3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
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3.88 avg rating — 3,171 ratings
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The Strange Death of Vincent Foster
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3.62 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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4.15 avg rating — 38,237 ratings
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
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4.32 avg rating — 7,000 ratings
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
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4.31 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,364 ratings
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Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
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4.29 avg rating — 27,793 ratings
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The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman – The Engrossing Popular History of the Roman Empire, Han Dynasty, and Jesus's Era
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3.98 avg rating — 117 ratings
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White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States
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4.09 avg rating — 82 ratings
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A Few Small Candles
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution 1640-1660
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4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain
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4.55 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.72 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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Suicide or Murder? The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis
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3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A History of Warfare
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3.98 avg rating — 4,641 ratings
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
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4.15 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Race Matters
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4.15 avg rating — 11,970 ratings
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
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3.93 avg rating — 7,770 ratings
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
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4.13 avg rating — 4,818 ratings
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Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany
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3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
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3.96 avg rating — 3,234 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.89 avg rating — 938 ratings
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At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
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3.92 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Nuremberg: The Last Battle
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4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
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4.03 avg rating — 2,916 ratings
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The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers
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4.13 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, Volume 1
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4.05 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Spectator in Hell
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4.21 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
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3.98 avg rating — 2,471 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.34 avg rating — 21,856 ratings
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
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3.76 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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Surviving the Americans: The Continued Struggle of the Jews After Liberation
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3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
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4.40 avg rating — 2,066 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 65,541 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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4.26 avg rating — 3,614 ratings
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
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3.52 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
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4.01 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
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4.12 avg rating — 12,941 ratings
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All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
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4.36 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
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3.92 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Personal History: A Memoir
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4.09 avg rating — 24,868 ratings
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The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas
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4.24 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Hit Men
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3.96 avg rating — 975 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.77 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
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3.91 avg rating — 22,720 ratings
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Unexplained Mysteries of World War II
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3.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
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4.16 avg rating — 793 ratings
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A History of Pagan Europe
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3.74 avg rating — 698 ratings
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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
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4.31 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Escape from Archangel: An American Merchant Seaman at War
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
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3.84 avg rating — 757 ratings
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A Concise History of the Crusades
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4.02 avg rating — 433 ratings
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The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social, and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. Immigration Back to Traditional Levels
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2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
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4.18 avg rating — 710 ratings
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The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 29,138 ratings
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Virginia Woolf
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4.01 avg rating — 4,975 ratings
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Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945
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4.31 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
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3.81 avg rating — 680 ratings
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The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
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3.33 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Abraham Hanibal: Prince of Logone, Pushkin's African Ancestor
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hugh Glass
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